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The Counsel of Trent

#539 – FFAF: The infamous “radio priest” of the 1930’s

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this free-for-all-Friday Trent talks about Fr. Charles Coughlin and how he captured American radio audiences through powerful and offensive sermons.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:12.4

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

0:16.0

Monday through Thursday, we talk apologetics and theology, Friday we talk about, whatever

0:20.4

I like to talk about.

0:21.4

And it can be a wide variety of things, unfree for all Friday.

0:25.1

And oftentimes we talk about things that don't directly relate to the Catholic faith because

0:29.7

there's so many things one could talk about on a free for all show like free for all Friday.

0:34.7

But every now and then there's something really interesting related to Catholicism that

0:39.2

I would like to talk about on Friday as well because it's free for all, which means I'm

0:43.3

free to talk about whatever I'd like to talk about.

0:46.8

So there was a podcast that I started listening to recently and it's really fascinating and

0:53.9

really well done about a figure that I was familiar with.

0:57.7

But I only knew like the basic definition and sketch of this individual.

1:03.5

So the podcast is put out I think by a group called tablet and it is called radio active.

1:11.4

So it's like a play on it's a play on words, but it's radio active, but it's not about

1:16.6

radio activity.

1:17.6

It's not about Chernobyl.

1:18.9

It's not about physics.

1:20.6

It is about probably the most famous or I guess a better word to use would be infamous radio

1:27.8

personalities in American history.

1:30.1

So when you think about radio talk radio, who would be perhaps the most infamous and famous,

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